Put statement in VB.NET

[sequoyan]

Hello,

I'm trying to learn VB.NET after learning VB6. I have a small program that uses Put to write variables to a file.

I've learned about StreamWriter and BinaryWriter in VB.NET but am seemingly unable to write variants to a file using these (the way I did with Put). Is there any way to do this in VB.Net?

Thanks for any help.

- Jake

[PT Exorcist]

first of all instead of variant u use the object in .net..to convert an object to string you can do yourVar.ToString()

hope this helps

[sequoyan]

thanks for the advice.

here's the situation, you tell me if your idea should work:

I have a byte array with values over 256. I can't write those using the binary writer because it doesn't like those bytes that are over 256.

Here's the code that creates the bytes over 256:

        For K = 0 To ((sArrayLength - rasSt) - 100)
            Bt1 = sRas(K) And &HF
            Bt2 = (sRas(K) And &HF0) \ 16
            tRas(K) = Bt2 Or (Bt1 * 256)
        Next K

tRas is a byte array but it ends up containing bytes with values like 717 "2CD".

Thanks for any more help..

- J

[nemaroller]

A byte can only hold 256 different values. 2 ^ 8 =256. Each element of a byte array therefore could only hold a value between 0 and 255.

What you're describing seems implausible.

[sequoyan]

I agree completely, I couldn't believe my own eyes.

Anyway I found a workaround.

- J